Synonyms for panacea
ˌpæn əˈsi əpanacea

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1. panaceanoun

   A particular plant believed to provide a cure-all.

   Synonyms:
   allheal, woundwort

2. panaceanoun

   Synonyms:
   catholicon, cure-all

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1. Panaceanoun

   (Greek mythology) the goddess of healing; daughter of Aesculapius and sister of Hygeia

   Synonyms:
   nostrum, cure-all, catholicon

2. panacea, nostrum, catholicon, cure-allnoun

   hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases; once sought by the alchemists

   Synonyms:
   nostrum, cure-all, catholicon

Matched Categories

1. • Greek Deity
   • Remedy

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1. alexiteric

   ease at the bowel movements, ease in the stomach pain during the urge to pass stools, sudden depression in the muscles of the stomach and intestine to release the undigested food material.

   a person undergoing pain before passing stools will be released by the consumption of the fruit of the agathi tree.

   Submitted by naveenshreeshaiva on March 18, 2020  

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1. panaceanoun

   Synonyms:
   catholicon, universal medicine, universal remedy

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1. panaceanoun

   Synonyms:
   cure-all, catholicon, relief, solace, nepenthe

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1. List of paraphrases for "panacea":

   cure-all, elixir

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How to use panacea in a sentence?

1. David Merriman:

   Communities around the city shouldn’t see Walmart or other big-box retailers as a panacea for local economic problems.

2. Jake Tapper:

   It's not a panacea, we can't just test and trace our way out of this.

3. Gary Paulin:

   We all know QE is no panacea. It won't fix the problems of Europe, only reforms can do that, but one thing we have learnt is that money printing is good for equity values.

4. Bill Mills:

   At a board level, it makes a lot of sense. At the operational level, it is a lot more difficult, on the one level there are some cost savings, but on the other hand M&S will have to place resource in their buying offices, whether that be UK or local, to manage the factories. It is not a panacea.

5. Andrei Keidar:

   The first year after surgery is usually a honeymoon period that should be used for coining new habits, and the ones that don’t do that regain weight, don’t take surgery as a panacea – beware of bad eating habits.